The 7th International Conference of English as
a Lingua Franca (ELF7), to be held at DEREE-
The American College of Greece, Athens, on
September 4-6, 2014, follows the highly
successful first six conferences in the series,
which were held in Helsinki (2008), Southampton
(2009), Vienna (2010), Hong Kong (2011),
Istanbul (2012), and Rome (2013).

ELF has now established itself as a major and
expanding field of academic research. Its
interconnections with pedagogy and a host of
other disciplines are being currently
discussed, acknowledged, and investigated.
Targeting English language educators who work
with English language users from diverse
educational and cultural backgrounds in a wide
variety of settings, ELF can uniquely be
interconnected with issues affecting and
related to identity, language policy-making,
intercultural awareness, technology, and
language use at all levels facilitating human
communications globally.

ELF7 seeks to explore these interfaces of ELF
with pedagogy and other disciplines in the
interest of the advancement of the field. In
this context, the ELF7 committee members invite
participants to contribute to this conference
by submitting their work, reporting on current
ELF research and/or participating in
constructive ELF discussions on a variety of
issues that would undoubtedly lead to
maintaining ELF interest, increasing ELF
insight, and furthering ELF research.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be 250-300 words long
(exclusive of title and keywords). Titles
should not exceed 15 words. A list of 3-10
keywords that best describe the area of your
submission has to be included at the end of the
abstract. Abstracts can only be submitted
electronically via the ELF7 online abstract
submission system. Abstracts submitted by fax,
e-mail or hard copy will not be accepted for
evaluation.

Co-authored abstracts must be submitted by the
first author only, but they should include all
authors' data: full name(s), affiliation(s),
city(ies), country(ies). The submitting author
will be considered as the corresponding author
of the abstract and will be responsible for
informing the other authors on the status of
the abstract. Participants may appear as
authors in no more than two (2) submissions.
Authors who wish to withdraw a submitted
abstract may do so by sending a written request
at scientificelf7.org

All abstracts must be submitted in English and
will be blind-reviewed by the Scientific
Committee, which will decide on
acceptance/rejection of submissions.
Notification of acceptance/rejection will be
emailed to the primary author by the end of May
2014 the latest.

During your on-line submission of the abstract,
please, indicate:
- The topic of your presentation
- The type of presentation. Write Paper
Presentation or Poster Presentation or PhD
Paper.

Please note that the Scientific Committee
reserves the right to request a change of your
abstract’s presentation type and/or topic,
according to the Scientific Programme’s
specifications. It is the authors’
responsibility to proofread their abstracts
and/or papers before submission. Otherwise,
errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation or
even scientific facts will be reproduced as
submitted in the book of abstracts.

To present their papers, authors must register
for the ELF7 Conference and pay the
registration fee by June 30, 2014. Abstracts of
duly registered authors will be included in the
Scientific Programme and in the Conference
printed material.

All paper presentations will be published in
the ELF7 electronic Conference Proceedings
Book. The deadline for full paper submission is
November 30, 2014. In addition, selected
conference papers will be published by a
distinguished publishing house in the
field.

Abstracts for all types of presentations must
be submitted by March 31, 2014.

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